The Madhouse - a new 120'000 word book out on Socialist Sweden

[GreenCardSeeker]

The project I've been working on several hours a day for the last six or seven months is finally complete - a study of Swedish society from a right-wing perspective. It focuses mainly on the lack of liberty in such matters as freedom of speech and raising children, two areas in which the government takes an almost unsurpassed intrusive role, unheard of in the rest of the world. Case stories of people being sentenced to prison for "hate speech," as well as the legislation and legal perspectives that made the sentences possible, something that should be of great interest to people concerned about the disintegration of free speech in today's world.

Also covered is a number of cases where the government on dubious grounds took children from families where there was no real reason to suspect that they've faced abuse or neglect, but where the generous powers granted in the social services legislation made the child seizures possible. This also includes a historical perspective that serves as a backdrop for today's foster care. Forced sterilizations and orphanages, anyone?

Apart from this, the book also covers the lenient sentences and luxurious prisons which make a life of crime a never-ending summer holiday in Sweden, as well as the atrocious bias in mass media, the subservient justice systeme and some other things.

If you want more information on the book, go to http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046ZS2PA and read the product description or download the Kindle sample. Perhaps you can buy it as well. So far it's only out as a Kindle E-book (which can be read on PC's and various other mobile devices as well), but if sales take off I'm going to make it available in paper form too. If you forget the URL, you can also find it by searching for Daniel Hammarberg on amazon.com.

Though I've spent a great deal of time researching and writing this well-referenced book, I don't have much in the way of marketing channels, hence promotion might become a problem. Since I'm quite poor too, my plan is to try to personally promote it on forums and such, and any help in this area would be very appreciated. The people here that run blogs and like the book are encouraged to bring it up, and I can do web interviews over Skype or similar if needed, send me a PM if so. If anyone is in the business of home-made radio through podcasts or similar, I'd be interested in coming on the show and talk about the book. I've done some research as to which media could potentially have an interest in the book, hopefully it can take off that way even though I'm a bit of a pariah in my own society. I can safely say that this isn't a government-approved book.

Though the production of this book has been a one-man project from start to finish, it's a serious work with references for just about all the quotes used, including over a hundred footnotes. Hopefully people will enjoy my sense of humour too, it can't be considered a very dry book. For the Kindle version, I've also done the work of making sure both the HTML and the logical ToC's work properly.

Well, go ahead and check out my book now. I don't think you'll be disappointed. :-P

[Danke]

Wondering where you have been.

I'll check it out.

[GreenCardSeeker]

Wondering where you have been.

I'll check it out.

Hmm, I guess I've done my usual living under a rock over here. :-P I'm still driven to expose Swedish society to the world though, this book just had to be made.

[aGameOfThrones]

I bought my first kindle this week, I might buy my first paid book from you later today when I get the chance to check it out.

[johngr]

Lycka till! Har du en version på svenska?


Apart from this, the book also covers the lenient sentences and luxurious prisons which make a life of crime a never-ending summer holiday in Sweden, as well as the atrocious bias in mass media, the subservient justice systeme and some other things.

There is a way to tell sometimes if someone who is accused or convicted of a notorious crime is ethnic Swedish. If they publish his name or photograph. You don't have to see the name or picture, just know they published it. Even if there is a violent criminal still at large, you don't get a picture. Though lately, they have been turning to photoshop to lighten the skin tone of pictured perps, as they did with an obvious-from-morphology mulatto who strong-arm robbed a convenience store in Skåne.

My perspective is that Skandinavia and Anglo-America are or have become different types of dystopias. Sweden, Norway and Denmark are largely characterised by Brave New World against USA and Great Britain's 1984.

[GreenCardSeeker]

Lycka till! Har du en version på svenska?

Tack. Jag skrev den först för en internationell publik, har en känsla av att jag kommer bli lynchad när myndigheterna här får höra om den, för att inte tala om vänstersympatisörer som kommer mordhota mig och allt möjligt.. Fast så småningom om boken blir en framgång internationellt, så kan jag översätta till svenska också.

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There is a way to tell sometimes if someone who is accused or convicted of a notorious crime is ethnic Swedish. If they publish his name or photograph. You don't have to see the name or picture, just know they published it. Even if there is a violent criminal still at large, you don't get a picture. Though lately, they have been turning to photoshop to lighten the skin tone of pictured perps, as they did with an obvious-from-morphology mulatto who strong-arm robbed a convenience store in Skåne.


Hehe, I definitely agree there. You learn to read between the lines with the media in this country and their blackout on certain topics. It's disgusting the way they hide the identities of some criminals, such as the Örebro paedophile.. I cover his case in my book. He's got regular furloughs in Swedish society in spite of putting a number of children through the most horrendous acts.



My perspective is that Skandinavia and Anglo-America are or have become different types of dystopias. Sweden, Norway and Denmark are largely characterised by Brave New World against USA and Great Britain's 1984.

I agree there too, though while Sweden doesn't have much in the way of militarism, it does have its five minutes of hate against nationalists, as well as newspeak when the government explains why it does certain things. Things that in other countries would be considered atrocious are in Sweden disguised in vocabulary that makes it appear benign, such as taking people's children and putting them into orphanages.. That's described as providing them with "the care they need" and protecting them from the alleged "abuse" or "neglect" of the parents, which is almost always nothing more than normal parenting.

Feel free to spread the word about the book if you're able to.

[Flash]

Sweden isn't actually a Socialist nation. In some ways it has more economic freedom than America.

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/Sweden

[NYgs23]

Did you point out the Sweden has had 200 years without a single war and relatively free trade for 150 years (up to post-WWII). That history is probably more responsible for Swedish prosperity than any welfare state.

Did you further point out that Sweden and the other nations in part rely on American military spending for their defense, allowing to to pour more money into their welfare systems? These are important points when someone comes out with the "Well, just look at the socialist utopia of Sweden" arguement.

[GreenCardSeeker]

Did you point out the Sweden has had 200 years without a single war and relatively free trade for 150 years (up to post-WWII). That history is probably more responsible for Swedish prosperity than any welfare state.


I kind of touch on the economy and that it was very strong in the mid 20th century but that it's since gone downhill. Back in 1970, Sweden was #2 after USA when it comes to GDP/capita. In the CIA world factbook of 2009, Sweden has fallen to #30 in GDP/capita per purchasing parity, quite a plunge.



Did you further point out that Sweden and the other nations in part rely on American military spending for their defense, allowing to to pour more money into their welfare systems? These are important points when someone comes out with the "Well, just look at the socialist utopia of Sweden" arguement.

Hmm, I don't bring that up either, but plenty of other failures of Swedish society. One can't still have a good perception of today's Sweden after reading my book.

[GreenCardSeeker]

Sweden isn't actually a Socialist nation. In some ways it has more economic freedom than America.

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/Sweden

Well, it's a matter of definition. It's true that the representatives of the working class haven't overtaken the means of production, but in today's world with the Eastern bloc gone, it usually means a great nanny state instead, where the government cares for people from the cradle to the grave. In areas such as family matters, Sweden is even more socialist than the Soviet Union was.

I don't have any personal experience of running a business, but I don't get how Sweden can get a good economic freedom index. Small enterprising is virtually unheard of here. Maybe the index is based on the conditions for big corporations.

[djdellisanti4]

Well, it's a matter of definition. It's true that the representatives of the working class haven't overtaken the means of production, but in today's world with the Eastern bloc gone, it usually means a great nanny state instead, where the government cares for people from the cradle to the grave. In areas such as family matters, Sweden is even more socialist than the Soviet Union was.

I don't have any personal experience of running a business, but I don't get how Sweden can get a good economic freedom index. Small enterprising is virtually unheard of here. Maybe the index is based on the conditions for big corporations.

Does the book also talk about economic problems? I imagine it does, since that is part of society.

Will it be availble on iTunes at all?

Looks great though!

[GreenCardSeeker]

Does the book also talk about economic problems? I imagine it does, since that is part of society.

Will it be availble on iTunes at all?

Looks great though!

Yep, I cover taxes, among other way through a fictional story illustrating the hardships the economic system means. Petrol costs 2.5x as much as in the USA here mostly due to taxes, and the average person pays almost 2/3 in taxes. The typical person here has only about half the living standard that the typical American does.

Hmm, iTunes.. I know you can download the Kindle application and use on iPad's and various other devices, but the pricing system Amazon uses makes it hard putting up one's works on any competing site without losing out on a lot of royalties. You can buy the book off amazon.com and then manually put it on devices to use, I know that at least.

Thanks for the compliment, been working pretty hard on it.

[emazur]

I remember you - you did the documentary The Socialist Utopia:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=195091&highlight=socialist+utopia+sweden
The expose on the Swedish prison system was very interesting.

BTW, how did Sweden's rejection of the Saab bailout go?
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=185242&highlight=saab+bailout

[GreenCardSeeker]

I remember you - you did the documentary The Socialist Utopia:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=195091&highlight=socialist+utopia+sweden
The expose on the Swedish prison system was very interesting.


Thanks. I cover that in the book too, in greater detail.



BTW, how did Sweden's rejection of the Saab bailout go?
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=185242&highlight=saab+bailout

Hmm, I've not followed the matter that closely, but from what I can gather at a brief glance, GM sold Saab to a Dutch car manufacturer, and the company made something like $600 million in profits last year, though sales were down. The company is still around and making new cars.

[nandnor]

nvm

[GreenCardSeeker]

But where is the problem? if already prison is 90% paradise next to the rest of the world, so what? a vacation basically

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. You're saying it's ok that incarceration is like a vacation? That's got the downside that it encourages crime, and it's a moral offense to law-abiding citizens that criminals aren't punished.

[JackieDan]

Hejsan!

Jag känner mig som en idiot som aldrig hört talas om den här boken.

Tack!

[silverhandorder]

I bought the book because I am interested in seeing how Sweden is from our point of view. Tell me are other Scandinavian countries comparable to Sweden in laws?

[jclay2]

The project I've been working on several hours a day for the last six or seven months is finally complete - a study of Swedish society from a right-wing perspective. It focuses mainly on the lack of liberty in such matters as freedom of speech and raising children, two areas in which the government takes an almost unsurpassed intrusive role, unheard of in the rest of the world. Case stories of people being sentenced to prison for "hate speech," as well as the legislation and legal perspectives that made the sentences possible, something that should be of great interest to people concerned about the disintegration of free speech in today's world.

Also covered is a number of cases where the government on dubious grounds took children from families where there was no real reason to suspect that they've faced abuse or neglect, but where the generous powers granted in the social services legislation made the child seizures possible. This also includes a historical perspective that serves as a backdrop for today's foster care. Forced sterilizations and orphanages, anyone?

Apart from this, the book also covers the lenient sentences and luxurious prisons which make a life of crime a never-ending summer holiday in Sweden, as well as the atrocious bias in mass media, the subservient justice systeme and some other things.

If you want more information on the book, go to http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046ZS2PA and read the product description or download the Kindle sample. Perhaps you can buy it as well. So far it's only out as a Kindle E-book (which can be read on PC's and various other mobile devices as well), but if sales take off I'm going to make it available in paper form too. If you forget the URL, you can also find it by searching for Daniel Hammarberg on amazon.com.

Though I've spent a great deal of time researching and writing this well-referenced book, I don't have much in the way of marketing channels, hence promotion might become a problem. Since I'm quite poor too, my plan is to try to personally promote it on forums and such, and any help in this area would be very appreciated. The people here that run blogs and like the book are encouraged to bring it up, and I can do web interviews over Skype or similar if needed, send me a PM if so. If anyone is in the business of home-made radio through podcasts or similar, I'd be interested in coming on the show and talk about the book. I've done some research as to which media could potentially have an interest in the book, hopefully it can take off that way even though I'm a bit of a pariah in my own society. I can safely say that this isn't a government-approved book.

Though the production of this book has been a one-man project from start to finish, it's a serious work with references for just about all the quotes used, including over a hundred footnotes. Hopefully people will enjoy my sense of humour too, it can't be considered a very dry book. For the Kindle version, I've also done the work of making sure both the HTML and the logical ToC's work properly.

Well, go ahead and check out my book now. I don't think you'll be disappointed. :-P

GreenCardSeeker: What is the economic environment in Sweeden like? Is the government engaging in massive financial ponzi schemes (social security and medicare) that will run the country into debt default or hyperinflation?

[GreenCardSeeker]

I bought the book because I am interested in seeing how Sweden is from our point of view. Tell me are other Scandinavian countries comparable to Sweden in laws?

Ah, thank you for the purchase. As far as the welfare state and foster care laws go, the Scandinavian countries are fairly similar, and even have legal agreements to cooperate if a child taken into state custody moves to another Scandinavian country.

When it comes to hate laws, Sweden is in a league of its own - few countries come close to having as restrictive laws as Sweden does. The other Scandinavian countries also have such laws, but the Danish ones for example still permitted the publication of the infamous Mohammed caricatures.

Traditionally the level of prosperity has been quite similar as well, but lately Sweden has fallen behind while Norway has maintained a great standing in the economic rankings.

[GreenCardSeeker]

GreenCardSeeker: What is the economic environment in Sweeden like? Is the government engaging in massive financial ponzi schemes (social security and medicare) that will run the country into debt default or hyperinflation?

Hmm, right now we have a centrist government that maintains some financial sanity. Traditionally, the country has always been ruled by the Social Democrats, who in the 1990's had no less than 10% of the work force on disability. It gave rise to a running joke in that in a country that according to its own account had the world's most healthy people, it somehow managed to be the most sick when it came time to go to one's job.

The current fiscal policies are fairly restrictive, almost draconian in what services have been removed from the native population, while maintaining a high tax rate. Whatever has been saved from these cuts is entirely lost due to refugee immigration, however, which drains Swedish finances.

Though state finances are good, it's my belief that the underlying economic structure is becoming ever more unhealthy, with the well-educated emigrating to the USA in a massive brain drain, and the widespread apathy that has taken over large portions of the country. I personally predict that Sweden will become a third world country before too long.